Difference between revisions of "2011-10-09 42 -88"

Latest revision as of 01:09, 13 August 2019

Location

Some kind of field in Harvard, IL across from a school.

Participants

RocketMac

Plans

One Sunday a month, I travel down from Greenfield, IL to Oakwood Hills, IL for gaming with friends. I had already checked the day's coordinates on Friday and found an alternate route to my friends that passed by the hashpoint without too much of a delay.

Expedition

My original hope was to earn a TRON Achievement, so I started my track recorder as I pulled out of the driveway. The drive from Greenfield to Harvard proved simple enough. Just South of the Illinois border, I stopped to try to find a geocache, but based on my own experience and recent logs, it has gone missing. That's one advantage of geohashing; they never go missing.

Continuing South, pulled up on the side of the road near Richard D Crosby Elementary School. The hashpoint was in a corn field across the street. Standing next to a telephone/power pole, I made sure I was a close to the point before going in as possible. I also made sure that no cars were in sight before stepping in just in case someone would object to my probable trespassing.

Standing there, I was only 17 yards away, but I was determined to be right on the spot. Wading in, I started having flashbacks to visiting family farms as a kid as well as images of horror movie scenes. At last it was daytime.

After a little bit of wandering, I was there. I snapped a few pictures, one from each cardinal directions showing that I was, in fact, surrounded by corn.

On my way out, I slowed down as I reached the edge of the field, so I could listen for approaching cars. Once the coast was clear, I popped on. No sooner had I crossed the street and was back at my car, a police car drove by. Good timing.

From there, I continued on to my friends' place. My GPS gave me a different route home which I thought would help with my TRON achievement. When I checked, I only crossed the line once when I was flipping a U-turn after the hash. Drats!

Tracklog

My log for the whole day is available in GPX and KMZ formats

Photos

East
South
West
North
GPS

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-09.

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 == Location ==
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+Some kind of field in Harvard, IL across from a school.
 == Participants ==
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+* [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]]
 == Plans ==
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+One Sunday a month, I travel down from Greenfield, IL to Oakwood Hills, IL for gaming with friends. I had already checked the day's coordinates on Friday and found an alternate route to my friends that passed by the hashpoint without too much of a delay.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+My original hope was to earn a TRON Achievement, so I started my track recorder as I pulled out of the driveway. The drive from Greenfield to Harvard proved simple enough. Just South of the Illinois border, I stopped to try to find a geocache, but based on my own experience and recent logs, it has gone missing. That's one advantage of geohashing; they never go missing.
+Continuing South, pulled up on the side of the road near Richard D Crosby Elementary School. The hashpoint was in a corn field across the street. Standing next to a telephone/power pole, I made sure I was a close to the point before going in as possible. I also made sure that no cars were in sight before stepping in just in case someone would object to my probable trespassing.
+Standing there, I was only 17 yards away, but I was determined to be right on the spot. Wading in, I started having flashbacks to visiting family farms as a kid as well as images of horror movie scenes. At last it was daytime.
+After a little bit of wandering, I was there. I snapped a few pictures, one from each cardinal directions showing that I was, in fact, surrounded by corn.
+On my way out, I slowed down as I reached the edge of the field, so I could listen for approaching cars. Once the coast was clear, I popped on. No sooner had I crossed the street and was back at my car, a police car drove by. Good timing.
+From there, I continued on to my friends' place. My GPS gave me a different route home which I thought would help with my TRON achievement. When I checked, I only crossed the line once when I was flipping a U-turn after the hash. Drats!
 == Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may post a link here -->
+My log for the whole day is available in [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2011-10-09.gpx GPX] and [http://coldshadow.com/geohashing/2011-10-09.kmz KMZ] formats
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+Image:2011-10-09 42 -88 01.jpg | East
+Image:2011-10-09 42 -88 02.jpg | South
+Image:2011-10-09 42 -88 03.jpg | West
+Image:2011-10-09 42 -88 04.jpg | North
+Image:2011-10-09 42 -88 05.png | GPS
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+{{land geohash
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+| longitude = -88
+| date = 2011-10-09
+| name = RocketMac
+| image =
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